Player Dossier

2016-2019

Kansas

Carter Stanley

QB • 6'2" • 198 lbs • Vero Beach, FL, USA

Balanced quarterback profileVolume operator

Carter Stanley is a balanced quarterback profile with 18.7 usage in the latest tracked season.

Usage / Role

11%

Rotational offensive role

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Impact Production

16

Developing production for a quarterback

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Reliability

17

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

35

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2019 Regular Season · Kansas

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
4
Program Path
Kansas
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Kansas State

Player Story

Carter Stanley built his college career from 2016 through 2019 as a quarterback from Vero Beach, FL wearing No. 9, spending time with Kansas. The clearest part of Carter Stanley's career was his passing role: 5,032...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2015 · Rating 0.8059

Vero Beach · Vero Beach, FL

Committed To
Kansas
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2015

Carter Stanley, QB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2019 Regular Season · Kansas. Carter Stanley is a balanced quarterback profile with 18.7 usage in the latest tracked season.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Total offense
5,353
Passing yards
5,032
Rushing yards
321
Touchdowns
38

Quick Answers

Carter Stanley quick answers

Latest team and position
Kansas · QB
Career Total Offense
5,353
Tracked sample
4 unique seasons · 4 entries · 34 games
Best season
2019 Regular Season · Kansas
Top game
Kansas State
Recruit profile
3-star · Vero Beach · Kansas
High school pipeline
Vero Beach · 43 FBS recruits · 2 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 9 · Senior
2019 Total offense rank
2,729 total offense · QB 67th (top 19%) · Big 12 6th (top 5%) · National 67th (top 5%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTotal OffensePass YdsRush YdsTDOverall
2016 Regular SeasonKansas91,083959124639.9
2017 Regular SeasonKansas81,1991,10891444.6
2018 Regular SeasonKansas534230438335
2019 Regular SeasonKansas122,7292,661682567.3

Related Context

Carter Stanley played QB for Kansas. Across 4 tracked seasons, Carter Stanley recorded 5,032 passing yards, 321 rushing yards, and -8 receiving yards. His top tracked season came in 2019 with Kansas.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2019 Regular Season

Kansas paired 2,729 primary output with 55.3 efficiency.

Supporting note

2018 Regular Season role shape

pass-led usage with 62.7 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value is trending up

2019 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Oklahoma State

Loss with 246 yards of offense and 59.8 efficiency. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2018 Regular Season · Kansas

Games

5

Primary Metric / G

68.4

Efficiency

62.7

Usage

16.3

Consistency

28.4

Best Game by takeover score

Oklahoma State

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Rutgers: 31. Baylor: 64. Oklahoma State: 246. West Virginia: 1. Texas Tech: 0

Volume vs Efficiency

Each dot is a game. Farther right means the player carried more of the workload, and higher means they were more efficient with those chances.

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Volume on the x-axis, quality on the y-axis.

Volume versus efficiency scatter chart. Rutgers: 4 by 82.1. Baylor: 9 by 77. Oklahoma State: 45 by 59.8. West Virginia: 10 by 32

Split Comparison

Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.

Wins31 · Games = 1 · -46.8 vs Losses
Losses77.8 · Games = 4 · +46.8 vs Wins

Game Log

Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.

5 games

Featured metric

Total Offense

Top game by takeover score

Oklahoma State

Best efficiency game

82.1 vs Rutgers

Result
Sat 10/20@ Texas TechL 16-48
Sat 10/6@ West VirginiaL 22-38581562.501322-14-700
Sat 9/29vs Oklahoma State3+ TDL 28-48243224775.03059.813-1-0.10011
Sat 9/22@ BaylorL 7-26463766.700773279018
Sat 9/15vs RutgersW 55-14115100.00082.13268.70020

Player Story

Carter Stanley story

Carter Stanley built his college career from 2016 through 2019 as a quarterback from Vero Beach, FL wearing No. 9, spending time with Kansas. The clearest part of Carter Stanley's career was his passing role: 5,032 passing yards, 37 touchdown passes, 758 attempts, and 321 rushing yards across 34 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2019 with Kansas. Those numbers show where he fit, how often the ball or action found him, and how his role developed over time.

Quarterback careers are usually judged first by volume, efficiency, and scoring chances. His career also includes 321 rushing yards and 4 tackles, giving the story more than a single-category snapshot. With 34 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across Kansas.

The arc is straightforward: Carter Stanley moved through the depth chart, found a larger role, and turned that opportunity into production that can be understood through standard football numbers.

Career Arc

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    Kansas

    2016-2019

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

2016201720182019
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2016 Regular SeasonKansas1,08361.311.8
2017 Regular SeasonKansas1,1994622116
2018 Regular SeasonKansas34262.716.3-857
2019 Regular SeasonKansas2,72955.318.72,387

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Kansas State

Week 9 · L 20-30 · Conference game

Loss with 441 yards of offense and 57.1 efficiency.

441

Total Offense

85.7 takeover

441 total offense with 57.1 efficiency.

#2

vs Oklahoma State

Week 5 · L 28-48 · Conference game

246

Total Offense

83.3 takeover

Loss with 246 yards of offense and 59.8 efficiency.

246 total offense with 59.8 efficiency.

#3

@ Kansas State

Week 13 · L 19-34 · Conference game

354

Total Offense

81.2 takeover

Loss shaped by high passing volume and turnover pressure.

354 total offense with 61.4 efficiency.

#4

@ Texas

Week 8 · L 48-50 · Conference game

375

Total Offense

70.9 takeover

Loss with balanced pass-rush production and strong creator value.

375 total offense with 71.2 efficiency.

#5

vs West Virginia

Week 4 · L 24-29 · Conference game

314

Total Offense

70 takeover

Loss with 314 yards of offense and 75.1 efficiency.

314 total offense with 75.1 efficiency.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2019 Regular Season · Kansas

2,729 primary output · 55.3 efficiency · 18.7 usage

67.3

#2

2017 Regular Season · Kansas

44.6

1,199 primary · 46 efficiency · 22 usage

#3

2016 Regular Season · Kansas

39.9

1,083 primary · 61.3 efficiency · 11.8 usage

Milestones

7

250+ passing yards

7

300+ total offense

8

3+ TD games

11

Above avg efficiency